Category: Workers’ Compensation

Suffering a workplace injury is painful and distressing, especially if it leaves you facing an uncertain, temporary, or permanent earning future. Fortunately, workers’ compensation in Oklahoma is a safety net for injured workers, providing a portion of lost income and paying medical costs. An Oklahoma City workers’ compensation attorney provides a free evaluation of your case…

Oklahoma is an industrious state, but busy, productive industries unfortunately generate a significant number of workplace injury claims each year. Workers’ compensation in Oklahoma provides a crucial safety net for injured workers, but sometimes it isn’t until after an injury happens that a part-time employee asks, “Am I eligible for workers’ compensation in Oklahoma?”A workers’…

Workers’ compensation is an important safety net for Oklahoma employees, covering their medical care and physical therapy costs for workplace injuries and providing 70% of their standard income for temporary or permanent total disability, or temporary or permanent partial disability. During your injury treatment and recovery period, questions may arise regarding your benefits and employment…

Most Oklahoma employees show up to work every day and give their best efforts, but accidents can occur even to the most careful employee. A common misplaced concern is that workers’ compensation insurance doesn’t cover your injury expenses if the injury was your fault. Fortunately, workers’ compensation in Oklahoma is a no-fault insurance system designed…

Remote work remains a growing trend, including in Oklahoma. It minimizes the need for office space, lowers traffic congestion and carbon emissions, and allows greater flexibility for employees. But what if a remote worker suffers an injury while working from home? Is an Oklahoma remote worker still covered by workers’ compensation insurance?An OKC workers’ compensation attorney will…

When you’ve suffered a serious injury at work and find your life and your income disrupted, you may have very real concerns about how to support your family. Fortunately, Oklahoma’s workers’ compensation program provides a crucial safety net for injured employees, covering medical treatment and a significant portion of lost income or disability benefits.  The…

Oklahoma residents are active, productive workers, but when painful, work-related injuries prevent them from working in their previous capacity or make it difficult to work at all, workers’ compensation is a crucial safety net, providing medical and rehabilitative treatment and compensating the injured worker for lost income. But what if an employee has a pre-existing…

Workers’ compensation in Oklahoma provides an essential safety net that protects workers from financial hardship after a workplace injury. Workers’ compensation also protects Oklahoma employers from liability when injuries occur to their employees while on the job.  Many job positions in Oklahoma are seasonal, including agricultural labor forces based on harvest and planting seasons, and…

Any injury is painful and distressing, but being injured on the job comes with the additional anxiety that the injury will impact your ability to work in your usual capacity or at all. Fortunately, there are protections in place for employees who suffer work-related accidents and injuries. Workers’ compensation is a form of private insurance…

Workers’ compensation provides essential benefits to employees who suffer an on-the-job injury in Oklahoma. When an injury requires medical treatment and interferes with the ability to work, workers’ compensation pays for medical care, provides a portion of income, and pays settlements for disability or to family members in the event of a workplace fatality. Unfortunately,…

Compensation for work-related injuries may seem like a modern idea based on today’s more compassionate society, still, you might be surprised to learn that the practice of compensating a worker who sustains an injury on the job existed as far back in history as 2050 BC when workers in ancient Sumeria received monetary compensation for…